Where Do Republicans Go From Here?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The implosion of Donald Trump's campaign shows a party that's divided on everything from criminal justice reform to immigration. On The Gist, National Review executive editor and Slate columnist Reihan Salam considers the future of the GOP and conservative thinking. For the Spiel, why did the Republican Party fall for a demagogue? Is it because conservatives still kowtow to right-wing media outlets that embrace conspiracy theories, lies, and propaganda? Panoply Survey: We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn't even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:07.4	It's Tuesday, October 11th, 2016 from Slate, it's the GIST I'm Mike Pasca.
0:12.2	Are we having an election? No, seriously.
0:14.4	Is this actually an election?
0:16.5	This is something I am not sure it's an election.
0:18.8	This is a cascading meltdown.
0:20.9	It's a Republican Party implosion.
0:22.8	Whereas the party and the candidates are trying to wall themselves off from contagion from the other.
0:27.9	The question is which is the leper colony and which is society trying to cast out the lepers, right?
0:33.2	Has the city state cast out its dissidents or have the rats fled the city that's under siege?
0:40.0	Hard to say, but all great analogies for the Republicans.
0:44.0	Trump says the election is going to be rigged.
0:47.3	He's right, he has already stolen this election from all of us.
0:50.8	This is not an election, I mean.
0:53.1	The people will vote, but we're not using this as a battle of ideas.
0:57.3	Or even a battle of ideology.
0:59.1	It's a battle of ideas like a storm seller and a twister are engaged in a fruitful debate.
1:05.2	One side is blowing hard, sucking up fauna in its wake.
1:09.1	Well, fauna and flora, Billy Bush.
1:11.3	The other side is just batting down the hatches.
1:13.9	It's the only available strategy.
1:16.4	And when the storm passes, the survivor, Hillary Clinton,
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